“Should’ve been saddened where his party had come from and denounced it for all the damage it has caused.”
You mean like the ‘reforms’ and legislation that originated with progressive politicians like Teddy Roosevelt and Robert La Follette and Hiram Johnson?
Administrative agencies, the income tax, the Federal Reserve? That damage?
Caddell would have had no reason to apologize for that stuff since it originated in the Republican Party. As did eugenics, with its founder Margaret Sanger, matron of the Tucson Republican Womens Club.
“During this time Sanger also became involved in such radical groups as the Liberal Club and the Women’s Committee of the NY Socialist Party. Additionally, Sanger supported the anarchist-run Ferrer Center and the Modern School, where her children briefly received a non-traditional education, and took part in labor demonstrations and strikes put on by the Industrial Workers of the World. Sanger’s participation in the intellectual atmosphere and in these socialist and anarchist activities further established her position on the far left.”
https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/election-special-the-politics-of-margaret-sanger/